Blessed Are The Dumbf***s

Here, as always, is the thread to post all your comments and thoughts that don't fit anywhere else.

Biff's speaking voice, worldview, and penchant for taking credit for major inventions are engaging characteristics that help keep us tur...

I was not raised in any particular religious tradition and have never studied the Bible. Despite that, I could recognize reframings of fami...

Biff has sex. LOTS of sex. So much sex that I began to wonder if Moore included it as part of a larger narrative or characterization purpo...

For the two or three of us that probably managed to read "Lamb," here are some points for discussion. As for me, I really enjoye...

I know I haven't been the most active reader the last couple months myself (unless you count the innumerable number of crappy essays 10...

Well, I hadn't planned to post a next choice because I was sensing a bit of book club fatigue. Then somebody told me that he was nearly...

Just as trivia: Powell's gotten increasingly experimental over the years and his new novel is nothing but questions. He reads it:

Here's some other stuff worth discussing, mayhaps: the absence (but at the same time presence) of Theenie The Baby Grand and its underag...

Simons' relationships with the above three concern the great most of Edisto, as does: the Doctor's "paramarital twinings" ...

Two girls worth exploring here in terms of Simons emerging manhood: Diane Parker, she of the draws-dropping "field trips" (92). Sn...

"You try to put the world in simple terms when it's complicated" (47). Who the hell is Simons kidding? Edisto gets all sorts o...

One of the ways Edisto skewers reader expectations, I think, is not just by affording an impossibly adult sophistication in such a young man...

Someone please go on NPR and listen to the interview with Elizabeth Kostovo that aired this morning discussing her new book, "The Swan ...

Edisto by Padgett Powell 1985. Nominated for American Book Award (Best Debut). Powell runs the MFA program at U of Florida. 192 pages. ...